The Pirate Bay celebrates 10th anniversary with new Web browser

The Pirate Browser is a bundle of the Tor routing client and Firefox Portable browser without "bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap."

The world’s most notorious file-sharing service wasn’t supposed to last this long.

"Not because of cops, mafiaa or corrupt politicians," the admins of the the Pirate Bayadmitted Friday in a typo-laden post. "But because we thought that we'd eventually be to old for this shit. But hey, running this ship makes us feel young."

Indeed, to commemorate its 10th anniversary, Pirate Bay launched a new browser to help Web users access the site and others like it in regions where they’re blocked.

While Tor typically is used to allow anonymous Web browsing, the aim here is to enable users to circumvent any barriers put in place by Internet providers (ISPs) or government entities. The U.K.'s High Court, for instance, forced ISPs to bar users from accessingtThe Pirate Bay and major BitTorrent sites, such as KickassTorrents.

Presumably, the Windows browser also affords citizens access to communities like Twitter and Facebook in countries in which they are blocked.

"It's a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible," the Pirate Bay said on its blog.

The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, is celebrating its birthday with a party tonight in Sweden, and rightfully so: The site almost didn't make it to the milestone.

Another BitTorrent site has bitten the dust—albeit momentarily.
TorrentFreak reported today that the world’s second largest torrenting site after the Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, had its domain seized by Filipino authorities following industry complaints: